psychopath

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Psychology, psychiatry, Illness & disabilitypsychopathpsy‧cho‧path /ˈsaɪkəpæθ/ noun [countable] MPVIOLENTsomeone who has a serious and permanent mental illness that makes them behave in a violent or criminal way → sociopath —psychopathic /ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk◂/ adjective a psychopathic personality —psychopathically /-kli/ adverbExamples from the Corpuspsychopath• The main character in the movie is Dr Hannibal Lector, who displays all the characteristics of a psychopath.• Only a psychopath would include children in the instruction.• On several occasions she has been hurried through them by impatient attorneys and by irate psychopaths on their way to methadone-maintenance clinics.• The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.• The danger of other psychopaths who, now and then, unhappily become our leaders has been recognized as well.• He was convinced decades ago that psychopaths were the coming thing and soon would pass for normal.• In a medical book, the psychopath is cold-blooded, premeditated, uncaring, manipulative.• The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.Origin psychopath (1800-1900) Greek psych- ( → PSYCH-) + pathos “suffering”

单词	psychopath
释义	psychopath From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Psychology, psychiatry, Illness & disabilitypsychopathpsy‧cho‧path /ˈsaɪkəpæθ/ noun [countable] MPVIOLENTsomeone who has a serious and permanent mental illness that makes them behave in a violent or criminal way → sociopath —psychopathic /ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk◂/ adjective a psychopathic personality —psychopathically /-kli/ adverbExamples from the Corpuspsychopath• The main character in the movie is Dr Hannibal Lector, who displays all the characteristics of a psychopath.• Only a psychopath would include children in the instruction.• On several occasions she has been hurried through them by impatient attorneys and by irate psychopaths on their way to methadone-maintenance clinics.• The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.• The danger of other psychopaths who, now and then, unhappily become our leaders has been recognized as well.• He was convinced decades ago that psychopaths were the coming thing and soon would pass for normal.• In a medical book, the psychopath is cold-blooded, premeditated, uncaring, manipulative.• The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.Origin psychopath (1800-1900) Greek psych- ( → PSYCH-) + pathos “suffering”
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